RE: 21st night: As endorsed by DIRK CALDER
05-11-2015, 01:43 AM
(This post was last modified: 05-11-2015, 01:52 AM by Dalmationer.)
Summary of last session:
After waking Ena up in the brig of the 21st night, Avril has some Real Talk. Turns out the cyborg's weird robot implants are playing host to a synthetic personality called Mercury-17, which is attempting to reactivate the horrendously complicated mass of interlinking systems inside her, and whose belligerent inner-monologue basically sounds like some kind of horribly cocky sports announcer. M-17 turns out to be a big hit in the battledome about 2 decades ago. About 12 standard space years ago, however, she vanished off the map. There are a whole bunch of conspiracy theories about it.
Avril and Ena formulate a plan to gain a controlling interest in the battledome and shut it down, to make sure no one falls victim to this horrible place again. They single out Rocky Vegas as their in.
Avril, Ena, Mint & Ikan head down to Da Nasty Klub to find Rocky Vegas. Avril quickly becomes high as shit on the pheromones they pump into the air supply, but the others seem fine. Ikan's latent technopathic abilities break a whole bunch of the slot machines by mistake. She and Mint decide to actually play some of the games, and do pretty well, all things considered.
Meanwhile, Avril- going as Entropy Jones- sets her sights on Rocky. She introduces herself, and through some sneaky fuckery with the roulette table and her brainmight, she manages to befriend the guy. Ena just sits around feeling really awkward that she has to wear clothes.
Eventually, Rocky gives Avril his number. She stays a few more hours, and loses almost all of her chips due to feeling waaaay overconfident because of the chemicals in the air, though.
The next morning, Avril and Ena call up Rocky, and explain to him that Ena is Mercury-17 in a new body. They try to organise a meeting with the rest of the directors, but Rocky doesn't believe that the awkward woman he saw at Da Nasty Klub is the vaunted M-17. After some negotiation, they resolve to provide proof that Ena is who she says she is at Rocky's venue of choice; another casino called Sweat 'n' Bet.
The Sweat 'n' Bet's neo-Roman facades and numerous hot tubs set the scene for the next phase of the plan. Mint, Ena and Avril meet there, with Mint going as Michelle Bouneparte (The Steelwinged Ferrari), and doing the most amazing eccentric billionaire voice i have ever heard. They meet Rockies Vegas and Hogan in the pool. The negotiation goes terribly at first, as Ena is too awkward in the clothes she's forced to wear to actually say anything, and isn't comfortable pretending to be Mercury-17, even after the training montage they had back on the ship. After some peer pressure, however, she finds herself slipping into the role very easily.
Maybe a little too easily.
Mercury-17's demonstration of her capabilities- shooting the '17' in a roulette table while it was spinning without looking, then throwing it like a frisbee so hard it gets lodged in the wall- certainly wows the Rockies. Hogan almost shakes out of his banana hammock in excitement at how marketable M-17 is. They exit, leaving a substantial amount of property damage, a wounded bodyguard, and smoking ricochet-marks all over the walls. They invite the crew to a meeting later that very day.
Ena, still shaken after the events at the pool, doesn't come along, but the rest (other than dirk) do. The Director of Administration, Volup O'Poole, monopolises the room, and Slype and Macallen arrive late. Oulie doesn't arrive at all.
Through the combined diplomatic efforts of Mint and Ikan, the crew manages to get 32% of the company's revenues, and a place on the board for someone to proxy for Mercury-17 (who is obviously not fully sentient and thus unfit for a leadership position.) That's where we left off.
After waking Ena up in the brig of the 21st night, Avril has some Real Talk. Turns out the cyborg's weird robot implants are playing host to a synthetic personality called Mercury-17, which is attempting to reactivate the horrendously complicated mass of interlinking systems inside her, and whose belligerent inner-monologue basically sounds like some kind of horribly cocky sports announcer. M-17 turns out to be a big hit in the battledome about 2 decades ago. About 12 standard space years ago, however, she vanished off the map. There are a whole bunch of conspiracy theories about it.
Avril and Ena formulate a plan to gain a controlling interest in the battledome and shut it down, to make sure no one falls victim to this horrible place again. They single out Rocky Vegas as their in.
Avril, Ena, Mint & Ikan head down to Da Nasty Klub to find Rocky Vegas. Avril quickly becomes high as shit on the pheromones they pump into the air supply, but the others seem fine. Ikan's latent technopathic abilities break a whole bunch of the slot machines by mistake. She and Mint decide to actually play some of the games, and do pretty well, all things considered.
Meanwhile, Avril- going as Entropy Jones- sets her sights on Rocky. She introduces herself, and through some sneaky fuckery with the roulette table and her brainmight, she manages to befriend the guy. Ena just sits around feeling really awkward that she has to wear clothes.
Eventually, Rocky gives Avril his number. She stays a few more hours, and loses almost all of her chips due to feeling waaaay overconfident because of the chemicals in the air, though.
The next morning, Avril and Ena call up Rocky, and explain to him that Ena is Mercury-17 in a new body. They try to organise a meeting with the rest of the directors, but Rocky doesn't believe that the awkward woman he saw at Da Nasty Klub is the vaunted M-17. After some negotiation, they resolve to provide proof that Ena is who she says she is at Rocky's venue of choice; another casino called Sweat 'n' Bet.
The Sweat 'n' Bet's neo-Roman facades and numerous hot tubs set the scene for the next phase of the plan. Mint, Ena and Avril meet there, with Mint going as Michelle Bouneparte (The Steelwinged Ferrari), and doing the most amazing eccentric billionaire voice i have ever heard. They meet Rockies Vegas and Hogan in the pool. The negotiation goes terribly at first, as Ena is too awkward in the clothes she's forced to wear to actually say anything, and isn't comfortable pretending to be Mercury-17, even after the training montage they had back on the ship. After some peer pressure, however, she finds herself slipping into the role very easily.
Maybe a little too easily.
Mercury-17's demonstration of her capabilities- shooting the '17' in a roulette table while it was spinning without looking, then throwing it like a frisbee so hard it gets lodged in the wall- certainly wows the Rockies. Hogan almost shakes out of his banana hammock in excitement at how marketable M-17 is. They exit, leaving a substantial amount of property damage, a wounded bodyguard, and smoking ricochet-marks all over the walls. They invite the crew to a meeting later that very day.
Ena, still shaken after the events at the pool, doesn't come along, but the rest (other than dirk) do. The Director of Administration, Volup O'Poole, monopolises the room, and Slype and Macallen arrive late. Oulie doesn't arrive at all.
Through the combined diplomatic efforts of Mint and Ikan, the crew manages to get 32% of the company's revenues, and a place on the board for someone to proxy for Mercury-17 (who is obviously not fully sentient and thus unfit for a leadership position.) That's where we left off.